Written by experienced careers advisor Steve Rook, the new edition of this indispensable guide will help readers to develop the skills they need to land their dream job.
Shows where and how exemplary teaching is practiced in US higher education and charts a course for cultivating teaching improvement throughout all types of institutions.
This comprehensive guide provides practical strategies and essential insights for anyone working with young adults, revealing the importance of nurturing mental health and wellbeing needs of students in the post-16 education sector.
Quality Learning for Positive Ageing explores the views of older adult learners to understand the factors that contribute to 'quality' in later-life learning and how these relate to wellbeing, positive ageing, and gaining protection against cognitive decline.
There are two key questions at the heart of the ongoing debate about education and training for all young people, irrespective of background, ability or attainment: What counts as an educated 19 year old today?
A competency is a combination of knowledge, skills and attitude that one needs in order to function adequately in any given professional situation - a nurse must know how to give a crying child a vaccination, and a policeman must be able to stop a drunken brawl.
This book provides case studies written by practitioners from four organizations serving diverse adult learners in equitable, inclusive, and just ways.
By exploring how the religious beliefs, scientific knowledge, and social surroundings of African-American sufferers of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) impacts their understanding of the condition, this book develops a new model of effective adult learning.
As adults, we are all continually involved in learning, with increasing numbers of us engaged in more formalized forms of learning; that is, in education or training.
This book illustrates the meaning and scope of lifelong learning and different types of poverty reduction programs prevalent generally in the African context and particularly in selected communities in Botswana.
Die Handreichung dient als Leitfaden zur Durchführung von Bildungsmaßnahmen nach dem Konzept "Zertifizierte Teilqualifikationen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit" (TQ-Konzept) für die Berufe Servicefachkraft für Schutz und Sicherheit und Fachkraft für Schutz und Sicherheit.
Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age examines contemporary issues in the design and delivery of effective learning through a critical discussion of the theoretical and professional perspectives informing current digital education practice.
Foundations of Educational Technology offers a fresh, interdisciplinary, problem-centered approach to educational technology, learning design, and instructional systems development.
Responding to the emerging needs of lifelong learners arguably represents one of the most fundamental challenges facing higher education systems of the countries of the developing world.
This book explores the formation and development of the cross-national patterns of adult learning systems between 1989 and 2019 in four Central European countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.
This book documents the creation and evaluation of the Al Manaahil television series, which set out to teach Arabic language and reading skills to Arab children of elementary-school age.
Since the middle of the last century tourism has demonstrated almost continual growth, with international tourist arrivals now recorded in excess of one billion per annum.
Adult Learning: A Design for Action: A Comprehensive International Survey contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Adult Education and Development held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in June 1976, under the auspices of the International Council for Adult Education.
@text: Everyone knows that education is important, we are confronted daily by discussion of it in the media and by politicians, but how much do we really know about education?
Der Band versammelt theoriesystematische und empirische Beiträge, die das Verhältnis zwischen organisationalem Lernen und Kritik unter gesellschaftlichen und pädagogischen Bedingungen diskutieren.
"Aktuelle Umfragen belegen: Die Verschwörungstheorie, einst eine Denkfigur der Selbstisolation, ein Exerziersport von Spinnern an der Peripherie, breitet sich aus.
For many, the academy has historically represented privilege and intellectual exclusion; for others it has represented an increasingly contested site, as marginalized populations have challenged the myth of the ivory tower being a haven of meritocracy and equal opportunities.
Die Autorinnen und Autoren beleuchten die Anforderungen an die Gestaltung von Studium und Lehre insbesondere für nicht-traditionelle Studierende aus den Blickwinkeln der Didaktik und der Studienstruktur, wie z.
Informal Learning at Work reflects the growing interest in changing the way the workplace encourages and enhances learning and professional development.
Dieses Buch aus der Anti-Stress-Trainer-Reihe beschäftigt sich mit den spezifischen Stressfaktoren im Arbeitsalltag von Betriebsräten und deren effizienter Bewältigung.
Teaching in Post-14 Education & Training provides a skilfully balanced mix of essential theory and practical guidance to support you if you are studying an ‘education and training’ qualification.
Originally published in 1986, this book was written at a time of increasing pressure on traditional areas of secondary and higher education and changing employment patterns - a situation which still exists today.